Posted on 02/07/2025 8:40:14 AM PST by Signalman
Just several months after losing the 2024 election as then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Republicans have handed yet another major defeat to Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. State House Republicans announced Thursday morning that the GOP will take control of the Minnesota lower chamber for the next two years.
This is part of the state House power-sharing agreement between Democrats and Republicans, which ultimately led to the election of GOP Minnesota State Rep. Lisa Demuth as speaker and the establishment of an oversight committee to investigate the Walz administration.
The power-sharing agreement was reached after state House Democrats tried to deny their GOP colleagues a quorum to take over legislative control with a three-week-long boycott. Republicans in the state House currently hold a one-seat majority, 67-66, with one vacant seat that was previously held by a Democrat. The seat will be filled after a special election in March.
Republicans taking over legislative control of the House will represent a significant check on Walz’s ability to pass left-wing policies through the legislature.
“During the time that we have the one-seat majority, there will be Republican chairs in every committee with a one-vote advantage,” Demuth went on to say during a press conference Thursday.
Should Democrats win the special election to fill the empty seat, Demuth will still remain the speaker. Another win, according to Republicans in the State House, is that due to having the speakership, the party has leverage when it comes to budget negotiations with the Walz administration.
If the House margins become a 67-67 tie, both parties will share power on committees while the GOP will retain control over the new Fraud and Agency Oversight Committee.
“There is record fraud in the state of Minnesota proven with three new cases even just last week,” Demuth remarked during the press conference.
A nonprofit organization based in Minnesota was found to have stolen a shocking $250 million from a COVID-19 federal food aid program back in 2022 under Walz’s watch. An audit faulted his administration for not preventing the theft of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
“Voters have made it clear they want Minnesota House Republicans to be a strong check on Tim Walz and his extreme liberal agenda,” Republican State Leadership Committee President Edith Jorge-Tuñón commented following the power-sharing agreement announcement. “They are tired of the high taxes and rising violent crime they’ve experienced under Democrat control. Today’s agreement is a decisive victory for Minnesotans, ensuring they get the representation they deserve.”
Republicans haven’t held the state’s lower chamber since they lost the majority in 2018.
Next time don’t have candidate that doesn’t live in the district
Poor Timmy Kaine’s dumb little brother, Little Timmy Walz. He’s a real loser. His own family voted for Trump.
Give him a Kotex, he’ll feel better then.
Timmy, your Social Justice Warrior wings
have been clipped back, way back.
Bloviations now postponed.
Good on Minnesota! I’m actually quite surprised at this good news.
Could it possibly be that after four years of intense INCOMPETENCE and BALD-FACED LIES fed to Americans all day long by the Enemy Media, that even Socialist strongholds are waking up?
Hope so! MAGA! :)
Tampon Tim has been exposed as the fraud that he is. When he first ran for Governor he was portrayed as a teacher and coach. Now the public knows he is a radical with disturbingly close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Under his leadership Minnesotans have the fifth highest tax burden in the country, on par with New Jersey. He has turned Minnesota schools into failure factories churning out kids who can’t read or do simple math, but filled with DEI CRT and transgenderism. Walz also has been blamed as being a drag on an already failed Harris campaign
Down in flames. Makes sense to me.
Walz is back in Minnesota with $1M in the bank and ‘wants the national spotlight’
” to be a strong check on Tim Walz”
NO. Not a “check” on Walz. An audit, and and investigation into how this 500 million dollar fraud happened.
Then, prosecutions of everyone having been complicit.
The buck stops at Walz, and he needs to be held accountable.
Did he ever get his gun loaded?
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